Browse: CD, Weiss, S (composer)

The Rauwolf highlights the variegated colours of the music (far more than a modern lute could), and its lower courses have a plangent resonance…Given pride of place at the end of this parade... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Conceived as ‘an audio voyage’, this programme makes associations between diverse repertoire through timbre, texture, colour and ‘affect’...In the hands of a gifted virtuoso like Eller, one understands... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Musicians of David Russell's taste and experience are like connoisseurs...What you lose in reduction and transposition, you gain in tone colour, dynamic control and an intimacy that encourages... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2012 More…

There can be no doubt that Barto’s traversal of the sonatas will stand as one of the major recording undertakings of recent years. — Fanfare More…

The American lutenist Robert Barto is a reliable, communicateive guide tothese understated masterpieces. His sound is rather brighter than I had expected, and he prefers relatively fast tempos,... — Fanfare, July/August 2000 More…